The Blacklist Season 8 Episode 18 Cast

For a Blacklist episode that opened up with such energy and perhaps the smuggest Blacklister to ever grace our screens [and damn those turtlenecks for making me still raise a li'l eyebrow at him] things ultimately got real dark, real fast. We're talking the death of three characters we had come to know and Liz had come to love, plus finally reckoning with the question that's been kicking around the edges of this entire season: Can Elizabeth Keen be saved?

And at this point, with a madman putting a bounty on her head, most of her allies dead or working against her, a rap sheet a mile long, and every bridge burned at the FBI what might salvation even look like for Elizabeth Keen?

Cooper thinks it's rehabilitating Liz through the proper legal channels any other fugitive would be put through. Reddington thinks it's bringing her into the crime lord life full-time. And Liz well, Liz seems to think that she probably passed the point of no return a long time ago. "I used to believe in salvation, that good was rewarded and evil punished," she says while sitting next to her murdered half-sister in the back seat of a car she stole while on the run from a hitman. We soon realize that this is her last-ditch effort at a prayer to an unknown god: "I don't believe that anymore but if there is a next life, and you do exist, please take care of my sister."